Resolutions for 2007
Get a paper accepted to an academic conference and at least a few submitted to journals. I kind of need to get on that this year. On the horizon now: MIT’s Media in Transition conference and IAMCR 2007 in Paris. Still waiting to hear from ICA 2007 in San Francisco. Journals are a little trickier, I guess, so I’m setting the bar a little lower on this one. I don’t want this to be a repeat of 2003, where I made really specific, professionally-oriented benchmarks for my resolutions, never accomplished them, and subsequently felt like a failure. (I accomplished both in 2004.)
Eat more vegetables and make dinner at home more often. I know that diet-related resolutions are totally cliche, but when roughly 95% of your meals are take-out (and another 4% or so are in restaurants), broadly specifying that I’ll do something “more” really isn’t too much to ask.
Crush my foes with impunity. Just kidding—I don’t have any foes. Completed this one in 2005.
Beat Ninja Gaiden on the original Nintendo. I finally beat Wizards and Warriors in 2006. Both of these games allow unlimited “continues,” but Ninja Gaiden sends you back something like four levels if you die at a certain high boss. Does beating this game matter, in the grand scheme of things? No. But if I don’t beat it by the end of 2007, I’ll spend 2008 training with Shaolin monks.
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Maybe at least 1 percent of your meals can still be out. Once Dinner Club commences.
By caralyn on 01.03.07 12:19 am
So does beating Ninja Gaiden on an emulator count? Do you even have it emulated? Cause if not that means a lot of hours with my Nintendo… or someone’s Nintendo anyway.
By Gen on 01.03.07 3:31 pm
Beating Ninja Gaiden on an emulator would count, but it seems unlikely because I don’t have a USB controller and that game is impossible for me on a keyboard. But it doesn’t necessarily mean a lot of hours on a Nintendo; I got up to the second-to-last boss (I think) something like three times in about an hour before I got gave up out of boredom when I last played. Doesn’t get much manlier than that, my friends.
By Jason on 01.04.07 1:07 am
If you beat a game on an emulator, but you use the “save” and “load” features of that emulator, does it still count? (eg. in Ninja Gaiden you save right before that hard boss and just keep restarting at that save until you beat it).
By Jordan on 01.07.07 1:04 am
I’m going to say no. Using an emulator to break the rules of the game really is no better than using Game Genie, as far as I am concerned.
In other resolution news: I submitted to the MIT conference. Go me! (Don’t ask me how the other resolutions are going yet.)
By Jason on 01.07.07 2:20 am
I don’t know if you’re actually “breaking the rules”… It’s more like saving time. But yeah, I guess it is kind of breaking the rules… Kind of like that girl Evie from “Out of This World“.
By Jordan on 01.08.07 1:08 pm
Well, the way I see it, the designers of Ninja Gaiden could have sent me back just one level, like usual, but decided to make it a few levels. I think this must mean that the game is meant to be, in part, a test of endurance. Either that, or there’s a bug in the game, and I’m holding it up as the Gospel according to Tecmo. But whatever.
By Jason on 01.08.07 2:02 pm
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